ArticleThe Journal of nutrition2020
Should There Be a Recommended Daily Intake of Microbes?
Article in The Journal of nutrition, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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60 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Fermented foods consumption, all-cause, and cause-specific mortality: a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of fermented foods consumption on gastrointestinal wellbeing in healthy adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- A scoping review of the health effects of fermented foods in specific human populations and their potential role in precision nutrition: current knowledge and gaps.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Colonization Ability and Impact on Human Gut Microbiota of Foodborne Microbes From Traditional or Probiotic-Added Fermented Foods: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Association Between Dietary Live Microbes and Diet Quality Among Children and Adults in France.Nutrition bulletin · 2026Article
- Modulating microbial intake helps to maintain the gut microbiome diversity.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Accelerated biological aging is associated with the negative relationship between dietary intake of live microbes and diabetic retinopathy in US diabetic patients.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Article
- Chemical and Functional Properties of Chickpea (Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Dietary live microbe intake and asthma risk and mediator analysis: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2003-2018.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Triplex viability PCR for simultaneous quantification ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Association of live microbes intake and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease, and cancer-related mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Probiotic potential of 'lactobacilli' isolated from traditionally fermented Ethiopian honey wine (Tej).BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- High dietary live microbe intake associated with reduced depressive symptoms in gastrointestinal disease patients: findings from a cross-sectional study.Nutrition & metabolism · 2025Article
- Chinese soy-based microbiome and associated microbial risks: a metagenomic investigation.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2025Article
- Relationship between dietary consumption of live microbes with mortality in adults with chronic kidney disease.Journal of nephrology · 2025Article
- The association between dietary live microbes intake and PhenoAge in US non-diabetes adults and the mediating effect of insulin resistance: NHANES 2007-2018.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2025Article
- Unpacking Food Fermentation: Clinically Relevant Tools for Fermented Food Identification and Consumption.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2025Review
- Influence of Autochthonous Lactic Acid Bacteria Cultures on the Microbiota and Biogenic Amine Production in Medium-Ripened Artisan Goat Cheese.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Joint association of dietary live microbe intake and depression with cancer survivor in US adults: evidence from NHANES.BMC cancer · 2025Article
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Abstract
The collective findings from human microbiome research, randomized controlled trials on specific microbes (i.e., probiotics), and associative studies of fermented dairy consumption provide evidence for the beneficial effects of the regular consumption of safe live microbes. To test the hypothesis that the inclusion of safe, live microbes in the diet supports and improves health, we propose assessment of the types and evidentiary quality of the data available on microbe intake, including the assembly and evaluation of evidence available from dietary databases. Such an analysis would help to identify gaps in the evidence needed to test this hypothesis, which can then be used to formulate and direct initiatives focused on prospective and randomized controlled trials on live microbe consumption. Outcomes will establish whether or not the evidence exists, or can be generated, to support the establishment of dietary recommendations for live microbes.
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